United States v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.3d 168 · 2015
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Kimbrough v. United States · Williams v. United States · Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee · Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co. · Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f we ha[ve] any doubt as to whether the erroneous understanding the District Court expressed ... affected the District Court's sentencing decision, we w[ill] not hold the error to be harmless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“error [is] harmless ... [if] the error did not affect the district court's selection of the sentence imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.